Companion levels.

[Sloub]

Hi all,


I finished one more time fallout 2, but this time by installing Megamod 1.34 on it. The experience was a lot different.
I think, for a fighter the game is much more easy, since you encounter more ennemies during travel and can loot some of their armors, it becomes easier to get money and ammos.

Anyway, I make a kinda charismatic char, then I recruit some newbies (sulik, vic, cassidy...) And I tried to equip them well.
From my hold games I never put any power armors on them, this time I even get them gauss rifles, pistols, plasma rifles... I stuffed them very well.
But I figured out that even by paying attention to em, levelling up em, and giving em good stuff, they were not... a big deal.
I'm not sure if individually they're of any trouble for an enclave trooper (maybe Klint or Marcus wearing his metal armor).

I think that there is a way to make fallowers usefull from the beginning till the end without empower them: making some new levels.
That way they are not cheated and they become stronger with the game difficulty growing.

Sulik can gets 10 levels, same for Vic ? (not sure), but Cassidy can only get 6 levels, Lenny only 4...
Maybe we could make all of them can get 10 levels ?


I'm not sure that I got the necessary skills to do those modifications so I suggest to any modder this idea, and I hope, maybe a day, it will be part of megamod.

 

[x'il]

I'm not sure if individually they're of any trouble for an enclave trooper (maybe Klint or Marcus wearing his metal armor).

They are not supposed to be able to kick any enemy's ass in the game, they are just the player's "backup". Klint in the MM is a cheat character and IMO is awful.

(...) I think, for a fighter the game is much more easy (...)

And it will be even much more easy and unbalancing with:

Maybe we could make all of them can get 10 levels ?

 

[Blackened]

Here's list of vanilla game NPCs and number of levelups they have on vanilla:
Myron: 4
Marcus: 5
Cassidy: 4
Sulik: 5
Lenny: 3
Robodog: 4
Goris: 5
Vic: 5
Skynet (Brain Bot, best brain): 5
Dogmeat: 5
K-9: 4

I doubt the Megamod changed this. By the way, I usually play on Easy/Whimpy settings and, as far as I remember, my NPCs were much stronger than the enclave soldiers. Though nobody in my party had a worse armor than Combat Armor.

And if you think the game is too easy, try playing on Hard, Rough, without saving (or with a very limited number of saves) or just applying some of those.

I like Klint.